Further to the Spin down idle drives in Ubuntu Server section of the main website http://www.havetheknowhow.com/Configure-the-server/Spin-down-idle-drives.html , there now follows an expanded how-to with some new information and techniques and several troubleshooting tips which have worked for other...

Just a little tip, but one which can be quite useful: If you are in the first stages of setting up your machine, or if something goes wrong and you have to fall back to directly logging in to your server, you may find the default terminal font to be tiny and thus barely readable, especially on a Lar...

Hi, all! As I mentioned in my previous posts, I have been taking notes to help me in my repeated re-installs of my system, over the course of the last several months and have lately based much of it upon the foundation provided by this site. At the moment, all of it works, except for my HDD temperat...

I've posted another version of this at:

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=471

It doesn't quite work yet, but I'll edit it when I figure it out.

Last night, I posted a thread about modifying the Thermal Shutdown script to use UUIDs instead of adapter position (hda, sda, etc.), in order to prevent drive reassignment on boot-up from messing things up: http://forum.havetheknowhow.com/viewtopic.php?p=1991#p1991 I have, however thought of a bette...

Morning!

I thought of a better way of doing this last night, but it was getting very late and so I didn't follow it through.

I will post it in it's own thread and link to it here.

Hi! Thanks again for the great website, it's proving to be an invaluable resource. If I may, I'd like to post a tip about scripting around using a UUID for my storage drive instead of it's identity as sdb . I was going to post this as a question, as I couldn't get it to work, but in the process of w...

I would like to say thank you for this great resource. It has really opened my eyes to the true scope of what can be done with a home setup, since I first discovered your site a month or so ago. I only wish that I had more than a few hours a week to get truly stuck in, as I find this stuff to be gre...